High-impact, Low-care

These easy-to-grow plants provide low-maintenance beauty and help conserve resources. The list is inspired by the Tracy DiSabato-Aust book, "High-impact, Low-care Garden Plants: Tough but Beautiful Plants that Anyone Can Grow"

Annuals (8)

Butterfly Attracting (81)

Creative Containers (52)

Drought-Defiant (87)

High-impact, Low-care (40)

Midwest Native (84)

Ornamental Grass and Grass-like Plants (38)

Rain Gardens and Bioswales (60)

Salt-Tolerant Plants (26)

Shade-tolerant (54)

Summer Color for Sunny Sites (65)

Trees & Shrubs (74)

Vines and Groundcovers (51)

Wetlands and Streambank Stabilization (48)

Dicentra spectabilis 'Gold Heart'

Common Name: Gold Heart Bleeding Heart

Gold Heart Bleeding Heart offers vivid golden foliage on large open plants. It is a stand out in shade gardens! Traditional heart shaped pink flowers dangling from long wands above the leaves....

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Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Common Name: Brilliance Autumn Fern

Brilliance is an improved Autumn Fern. Plants form a colorful groundcover with pink fiddleheads that turn coppery orange as they unfurl. Fronds age to a lustrous dark green and remain well into winter. New growth continues through the season, giving ...

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